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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"nightlife"”.
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Developing intelligence to understand and prevent violence and alcohol-related harms in nightlife settings
… associated with violence and alcohol occur in nightlife settings and preventing these harms is a priority for the UK government.Increasingly, a public health approach to prevention is evident in both national and localpolicies and strategies. The use of data and evidence to understand the …
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Regulating nightlife, policing race: a critical exploration of public and private policing in a non-metropolitan setting
This thesis draws attention to the ways in which nightlife is constructed along white, local norms by those who have a responsibility for governing and managing nightlife. Situated within ‘Greenshire’, one of London’s home counties, this thesis draws upon direct observations and interviews with …
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A Mixed Methods Study Exploring Brazilian and United Kingdom University Students’ Pre-Drinking Behaviour and Alcohol Use During Nights out
… thesis explores students’ drinking behaviour in nightlife settings. In many parts of the world, much of the burden of alcohol is related to risky alcohol consumption amongst students, which often occurs during a night out, including during pre-drinking (drinking at home or other private settings …
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Intrinsic Reward and Temporal Disruption: When workers leave their meaningful work
… of extrinsic rewards. Based on interviews with nightlife entertainers during the pandemic in 2020, this paper identifies a case of workers leaving an intrinsically rewarding job. Specifically, workers’ embodied experience of meaningfulness is related to their decisions to leave or continue with …
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Reconstituting troublesome youth in Newcastle upon Tyne : theorising exclusion in the night-time economy
… delinquency, and exclusion in contemporary nightlife, and how current representations of troublesome youth such as the ‘chav’ are used to articulate exclusionary practices. This thesis, though, also illustrates that exclusion is ultimately driven by commercially-defined imperatives …
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Exploring alcohol experiences amongst young people
… used a combination of breathalyser readings and nightlife surveys to increase the accuracy of surveys of nightlife users. The articles presented in this PhD provide a significant contribution to public health knowledge on the epidemiology of alcohol consumption and related harm, as well as …
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Beneath The Ruin Bars: A Philosophical And Empirical Journey Through The Multi-Layered Tourism Milieu Of Budapest's Party District
… data highlight the dominance of ruin bars and nightlife branding alongside emerging initiatives rooted in cultural care, participatory engagement, and creative tourism. Cultural institutions function as epistemic mediators, balancing local identity and heritage preservation against global …
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Broken windows and dancing bodies: Politics of movement in New York City’s salsa scene
… within the complex, highly contested history of nightlife within New York City, I assert that the processes of learning to dance can engender spatial and interpersonal transformation.
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An Evaluation of the image of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan in the British and Swedish markets and the implications for marketing the country as a tourism destination.
… sites, religious sites, beaches, scenery, nightlife, tourist information, accommodation, quality of service, price levels, airport facilities, adventure and cleanliness. The results showed significant positive image modifications in terms of safety, people and atmosphere; whilst, they …
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Viral visions : art, activism, and epidemiology in the global AIDS pandemic
… protests, workshops, campaigns, festivals, and nightlife. Ultimately, this dissertation argues that transnational AIDS cultural activism, with its viral aesthetic strategies, emergent modes of identification, and bold political interventions in public space, produced new critical understandings …
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That's Ru-volting! how reality TV reimagines perceptions of American success
… able to rip drag out of of subterranean LGBTQ nightlife and into mainstream consciousness while subverting traps of homonormativity and queer assimilation? How does this affect drag not seen on TV? This thesis reveals the strategies RuPaul’s Drag Race executes to retool hegemonic perceptions of …
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Shared E-scooter Adoption and Mode Substitution Patterns
… e-scooter rides and associated users. The off-to-nightlife class (39.9%) captures many rides for social and recreational trips at night, many of which substitute for private vehicles, ridehailing, or taxis. Many users associated with this class are college-educated and middle-aged with …
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Indigenous art in urban renewal: The emergence and development of artistic communities in midwestern post-industrial cities
… community participation and leadership, create a nightlife that can support business, low crime, and attract tourists.</p> <p>Policy makers, however, often lack understanding of how artist communities function and how these enclaves can enhance the development and sustainability of neighborhoods. …
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Night, Space and Urban design: case study of Mashhad, Iran
… This study aims to investigate how to improve nightlife by considering the impact of urban design. It studies the night-life of the shrine area in Mashhad through a multi-method approach and investigates the impact of recent urban design interventions. In addition, a series of guidelines are …
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Branding Korea or Marketing Ethnicity?: Manhattan’s Koreatown as a Transclave in the Global Economy
… seeking everything Korean, from day spas to nightlife; Koreatown attracts locals and tourists alike, who see the area as an exotic place to consume authentic, yet modern, Korean culture. This dissertation investigates how South Korea’s nation-branding strategy and cultural policies, together …
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A History of the Night in South Africa, 1860s-1980s
This dissertation uses the night as a vantage point to reassess the history of South Africa between the mid-nineteenth and late-twentieth century. It combines methods from cultural and social history, infrastructural studies, and the emerging field of ‘night studies’, to present a new way of …